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How Chris Bakke Received $150,000+ in Tax Credits Before Selling His Recruiting Startup To Elon Musk
"Before Fondo we tried to do kind of a janky DIY solution…it actually ended up being pretty expensive, a lot more expensive than what Fondo came out to be on a monthly basis."
Fondo's impact, in real numbers
What happens when your finances are finally on autopilot.
$150,000+
in Tax Credits
Fondo identified eligible R&D activities, prepared the claim, and applied the credit directly—putting real cash back into the business without extra work from the founder.
$80,000+
in Delaware Franchise Tax savings
Fondo corrected filings, applied the optimal calculation method, and handled amendments—eliminating overpayments and future surprises.
50 hours
Productivity increased
By removing manual bookkeeping, clean-up work, and back-and-forth with accountants, Fondo gave the team weeks of time back each year.
$150,000+
$80,000+
50 hours
"Before Fondo we tried to do kind of a janky DIY solution…it actually ended up being pretty expensive, a lot more expensive than what Fondo came out to be on a monthly basis."
BACKGROUND
Chris Bakke is a seasoned tech entrepreneur by day and viral X influencer by night. His track record includes multiple $50M+ startup exits to companies like Indeed and Zillow. Most recently, Bakke’s recruiting startup Laskie became the first acquisition under Elon Musk’s X Corp. Despite his business acumen, Chris admits to a gap in his knowledge for managing taxes and accounting, making Fondo an invaluable asset to Laskie all the way from launch to exit.
The Challenge
Ignoring taxes and bookkeeping is a costly afterthought for founders of fast-growing startups
Like Chris’ previous companies, Laskie took off like a rocketship after its launch in 2020. As the team quickly scaled from 2 to a distributed workforce of 60 people, Chris realized meticulous bookkeeping and an informed tax strategy would be necessary for Laskie.
At his previous company, Chris had met these needs with a patchwork solution of DIY bookkeeping, QuickBooks, and freelance accountants who didn’t understand venture-backed businesses. That strategy proved costly and inefficient, warranting a better approach.
The Solution
Fondo’s easy accounting solution for busy founders
When Chris received an $87,000 bill from the Delaware Franchise Tax Board, it became clear he needed help. Fondo emerged as the ideal partner for Chris's needs, offering a comprehensive suite of financial services tailored for startups.
From reducing the daunting Delaware Franchise Tax Bill to managing monthly bookkeeping and securing significant tax credits, Fondo provided a scalable, cost-effective solution. Their approach of embedding with Chris' team, offering direct support through channels like Slack, and Fondo’s intuitive document management platform marked a departure from traditional accounting services. This hands-on, integrated support model was exactly what Chris required to streamline Laskie's financial operations.
The Result
Thanks to Fondo, Chris saved both time and money
Before Fondo, Chris was spending 3-5 hours per month dealing with issues related to Laskie’s financial operations. While young companies need to be scrappy, working with Fondo came out to be cheaper on a monthly basis than the DIY solution he brought to his previous companies.
$150,000 realized in tax credits
50 hours saved per year
$80,000+ Savings on Delaware Franchise Tax Bill
While most founders won’t ever sell a company to Elon Musk, many are building to the north star of acquisition. Chris notes how Fondo also proved invaluable during Laskie’s high-stakes purchase by X Corp.
“We were negotiating with an entire team of lawyers and Elon Musk himself. We really wanted to make sure all of our books were super clean. It was amazing, just as part of [Fondo’s] traditional service with no additional fees, they spent a ton of time with us in those last couple of months. I think anyone else would have charged us many, many tens of thousands of dollars”
“This took a huge weight off my shoulders.”
Thousands of founders use Fondo to remove the stress of accounting and get back to building.
Kaben Clauson
Just use Fondo. It works great and helps you not think about your taxes.
Tom Firth
The Fondo team is great. Wish I had done it a year ago.
Pauline Roteta
I wish I'd moved to fondo earlier. Best tax filing experience ever, and we used to work with a national (much more expensive) CPA firm before... kudos to Fondo for making this boring stuff so easy
Elias Almqvist
Fondo is just fucking awesome
Kanishk Parashar
Awesome stuff!
Bardia Safari
Have had a great experience so far
Julius Adebayo
We've been using Fondo for a year now, and enjoyed working with them.
Bryan Onel
Fondo is amazing!
Roman Sevast
Fondo is Great!
Piero del Risco
Great team
Sandra Lifshits
Love working with Fondo! Made everything super easy.
Christian Van Der Henst
Easy onboarding
Amy Yan
Love the team and product!!
Diogo Valdivieso
I would flag that Fondo charges for Quarterly Bookeeping in their deal. This is useless for most startups. Annual bookkeeping is all you need.
Skyler Chan
David is the goat
Daivik Goel
Team has been super responsive, David is awesome
Kevan Dodhia
Fondo have been great so far!
Jason Cornelius
Fondo has made bookkeeping and accounting very straightforward. This is one of the better YC deals we've had the opportunity to try out. :)
Kai Cui
Fondo has been super easy to use and David is amazing
Sky Yang
David is the best, I love fondo, it was so easy to setup and get all my anlytics. We were thinking of hiring financial analyst and accountants, but fondo took care of everything!
Sid Rajaram
We love Fondo! David is awesome!
Lisa Kleinsorge
Amazing team! Gets the job done
Ahmad Sadeddin
Awesome product and company! Highly recommend them.
Basile Senesi
Really strong, well tailored on QBO startup accounting. Responsive, high touch team!
Illiana Reed
Fondo makes my life easy. I set it up one time, and they email me when they need something from me. That's it. Taxes done and dusted.
Zyad Elgohary
To be honest, I'm not sure what startups did before Fondo. Having a CPA in our Slack is essential.
Nauren Batjargal
Shoutout to Fondo for their incredible bookkeeping, tax, and tax credit services for startups. Fondo has been super helpful, especially during difficult situations. Their team’s eagerness to assist is remarkable, even accommodating us when we struggled with payments. Fondo’s culture shines through every interaction. Their service is outstanding, and every startup should consider using their products. We love Fondo and believe in their success.
Cristina Bunea
Just started using this (filed DE franchise tax with them), but the experience so far has been great. Very easy to use and intuitive, especially for the price.
Yana Welinder
Only regret: why didn't I get Fondo sooner :)
Yash Kothari
Fondo has been great! Super easy to work with.
Tom Bachant
The Fondo team were great & support communicative through the process!
Stephen Grabowski
Great experience so far. We have a complex setup and they have way outperformed the previous two solutions we had tried out. Strongly recommend.
Vishnu Hari
Fondo is the best and has been a huge upgrade over our previous bookkeepers :)
Theo Browne
Wanted to shout out a company having a strong impact on my stress as a founder and CEO - Fondo y'all are killing it 🙏
Sebastian Janisch
Fantastic team, they got us set up super quickly. Very happy with Fondo.
Sam Parr
Big fan of Fondo...was one of their first customers!!
Robert Thelen
Amazing product and service.
Sherwin Gandhi
Fondo is a team of rockstars. They make everything look easy - from onboarding to the actual bookkeeping. Very resourceful and helpful including sorting admin things out like entity registration etc. Highly recommended!!
Scott Sonneborn
Fondo is incredible. On-boarding experience was seamless - less than 15mins. Pumped to have everything off our plate. Very affordable for the level of service (dedicated slack channel) and amount of work they do.
Samuel Schneider
Fondo really helped get taxes done, an excellent asset for founders who are spread thin!
Richie Cartwright
Makes life easy, including for more complex structures like telemedicine (where we need different entities).
Rishab Hedge
Super helpful and hands on help!
Rajiv Bhat
Absolutely love the service!! David and the team rock!!
Pranav Sekhar
Great experience -- the team is super helpful!
Raffaele Colella
They made my life so easy - def reccomended
Pranav Manpuria
Super easy to use. Love Fondo!
Prasad Kawthekar
Fondo is incredible, they make a founder's job really easy until you get a dedicated Ops team member.
Parthi Loganathan
Fondo made taking care of my taxes painless... or at least as painless as taxes can get
Pradhith Konduri
Incredible service by the Fondo team! They have built out a process that makes it relatively hands-off for you to file taxes and stay in compliance.
Nunzio Martinello
Great team, service and support.
Nick Ornitz
Fantastic team that is extremely responsive! The Fondo team provides personalized attention and makes the onboarding experience seamless. Highly recommend.
Nikhil Abraham
Fondo has been great and helped us complete our 409a quickly!
Pablo Ferrari
Helped us keeping quickbooks organized, filed taxes, and got us a lot of R&D credits: all with ~1 hour of work from my side (setting up users in quickbooks and rippling for them and sending some previous year docs).
One Chowdhury
Fondo has been managing our accounting and Tax! They are so so so good with the process that I feel like I have a full finance team on autopilot!!! Team is also extremely responsive!! ❤️
Micah Wylde
As a technical startup CEO I have 30 different jobs and am completely overwhelmed all of the time. Using Fondo means that I don't have to think about bookkeeping or taxes which means I only have 29 other jobs to worry about. The team has been very helpful getting us set up with QuickBooks and handling all of our tax reporting. Highly recommended to other stressed founders!
Nicholas Kao
Team is fantastic and responsive, feel safe knowing they have my accounting and taxes handled.
Moréniké Oláòsebikan
Very responsive and user friendly. Thank you for making my start-up life easier.
Liana Herrera
Best tax season I’ve ever had since I became an accountant!! thanks to my friends from Fondo 😁🔥
Luifer De Pombo
Fondo is amazing. They are responsive and have our best interest in mind. They will walk us through anything we need. Highly recommend.
Man Hei Lou
Great experience! Loving Fondo, David and the team.
Kenna Nzewi
Fondo is very good at efficiently asking for what they need and then getting out of your way so you can build. Very thoughtful and founder-oriented service, highly recommend
Matthew Busel
The team at Fondo is great! They're super helpful, responsive, and take care of a ton of tax/accounting work. Highly recommend.
Joel Phillips
It has been refreshing to work with the team, after struggling with other platforms and accountants in the past. Thanks Fondo!
Jeff Tang
Fondo always have fast and helpful customer support and service.
James Hawkins
Huge fan of Fondo. They just get startups. They've been handling our US business and know how to work with our UK child company accountant too.
Jamie Gull
Fondo is incredibly helpful to take a lot of work off a founders plate and is easy to work with.
Jenna Hua
Super efficient! Really enjoyed working with the Fondo team! Highly recommend!
Harry Qi
They are extremely fast and it's great!
Jayme Hoffman
Fondo feels like part of our team. I love how they make sure we never miss a thing and stay on us to move forward. I can't recommend them enough.
Emily Yuhas
Really great team - easy onboarding and lots of value and saved time for us.
Gauri Manglik
Super helpful for DE Franchise Tax- highly recommend!
Dar Mehta
Had an amazing experience - worked with Ali, Diane, David, and Kayvon. Super responsive and knowledgeable. Strongly recommend!
Danny Sheridan
I was doing accounting and taxes myself before Fondo. I decided to check out Fondo and others and see which one was right for me. Others quoted me multiples of what Fondo priced me at. Decided to give them a go and am glad I did. Nice to have communicative professionals handling table stakes tasks like my income statement, balance sheet, and tax reporting at the state/national level.
Gregory Gevorkyan
Fondo are rockstars! The only company that knows how to deal with international startups.
Dillon Zhang Forrest
Love using Fondo! One of the best services we use - they are super responsive and helpful.
Daniel Jones
Amazing product and service. Would definitely recommend. Saves me so many accounting headaches, so I can focus totally on just building product. Dave and the Fondo team rock!!!!
Chris Bakke
Customer and #1 fan. This was actually a previous issue from before we partnered with them.
Dan Siroker
Fondo is fantastic!
Daniel Campion
No question, make your life easier with Fondo! Effortless and efficient, helpful to keep you on top of IRS filings. Highly recommended
Charles Chretien
Awesome team & great product!
Ayush Sharma
Highly recommend Fondo for all business taxes. We used them last year and are using them for 2024 as well. David and team is a breath of fresh air when it comes to simplifying the maze of corporate taxes for startup founders.
Dan Petkevich
Love the Fondo team. Completely handles all my accounting/tax needs.
Giorgi Tsurtsumia
Fondo was a life safer for us as a foreign company who had no idea how to manage accounting for DE entity.
Anthony Scarpone-Lambert
Highly recommend! Fondo has saved us a lot of time. They are extremely founder friendly and very responsive.
Anna Berger
We've been using Fondo since the very beginning of Trayd. The team is super knowledgeable and always willing to help us navigate any/all tax-related questions. Would recommend to anyone seeking this support.
Ankit Gorghandas
Fondo is the best!
Arnav Bathla ·
I absolutely love the team and the product! Super responsive and truly an A+ experience. Highly recommend using Fondo for your bookkeeping and taxes.
Anji Ismail
Competent and reactive team! And great deal.
Anjie Liu
Our team at Fondo goes above and beyond for us. Truly a reliable partner for Kiwi.
Anders Forslund
Great experience.
Allison Walsh
Loved working with Fondo! Great group.
Ahana Banerjee ·
Taxes and accounting can be such a black-box, but Fondo were incredibly patient with all my questions and explained everything extremely thoroughly and simply. The team is super responsive too; we have numerous people we can contact at any time through our shared Slack channel. We love being Fondo customers!
Alex Stansell
Super easy to use - great product!
Alex Sands
Loving Fondo so far! 10x better than my previous accountant experience.
Adora Cheung
Friendly, fast and efficient!
Aditya Jayaprakash
Great product and team. Super easy to setup and very responsive. Would highly recommend using them.
Kaben Clauson
Just use Fondo. It works great and helps you not think about your taxes.
Tom Firth
The Fondo team is great. Wish I had done it a year ago.
Pauline Roteta
I wish I'd moved to fondo earlier. Best tax filing experience ever, and we used to work with a national (much more expensive) CPA firm before... kudos to Fondo for making this boring stuff so easy
Elias Almqvist
Fondo is just fucking awesome
Kanishk Parashar
Awesome stuff!
Bardia Safari
Have had a great experience so far
Julius Adebayo
We've been using Fondo for a year now, and enjoyed working with them.
Bryan Onel
Fondo is amazing!
Roman Sevast
Fondo is Great!
Piero del Risco
Great team
Sandra Lifshits
Love working with Fondo! Made everything super easy.
Christian Van Der Henst
Easy onboarding
Amy Yan
Love the team and product!!
Diogo Valdivieso
I would flag that Fondo charges for Quarterly Bookeeping in their deal. This is useless for most startups. Annual bookkeeping is all you need.
Skyler Chan
David is the goat
Daivik Goel
Team has been super responsive, David is awesome
Kevan Dodhia
Fondo have been great so far!
Jason Cornelius
Fondo has made bookkeeping and accounting very straightforward. This is one of the better YC deals we've had the opportunity to try out. :)
Kai Cui
Fondo has been super easy to use and David is amazing
Sky Yang
David is the best, I love fondo, it was so easy to setup and get all my anlytics. We were thinking of hiring financial analyst and accountants, but fondo took care of everything!
Sid Rajaram
We love Fondo! David is awesome!
Lisa Kleinsorge
Amazing team! Gets the job done
Ahmad Sadeddin
Awesome product and company! Highly recommend them.
Basile Senesi
Really strong, well tailored on QBO startup accounting. Responsive, high touch team!
Illiana Reed
Fondo makes my life easy. I set it up one time, and they email me when they need something from me. That's it. Taxes done and dusted.
Zyad Elgohary
To be honest, I'm not sure what startups did before Fondo. Having a CPA in our Slack is essential.
Nauren Batjargal
Shoutout to Fondo for their incredible bookkeeping, tax, and tax credit services for startups. Fondo has been super helpful, especially during difficult situations. Their team’s eagerness to assist is remarkable, even accommodating us when we struggled with payments. Fondo’s culture shines through every interaction. Their service is outstanding, and every startup should consider using their products. We love Fondo and believe in their success.
Cristina Bunea
Just started using this (filed DE franchise tax with them), but the experience so far has been great. Very easy to use and intuitive, especially for the price.
Yana Welinder
Only regret: why didn't I get Fondo sooner :)
Yash Kothari
Fondo has been great! Super easy to work with.
Tom Bachant
The Fondo team were great & support communicative through the process!
Stephen Grabowski
Great experience so far. We have a complex setup and they have way outperformed the previous two solutions we had tried out. Strongly recommend.
Vishnu Hari
Fondo is the best and has been a huge upgrade over our previous bookkeepers :)
Theo Browne
Wanted to shout out a company having a strong impact on my stress as a founder and CEO - Fondo y'all are killing it 🙏
Sebastian Janisch
Fantastic team, they got us set up super quickly. Very happy with Fondo.
Sam Parr
Big fan of Fondo...was one of their first customers!!
Robert Thelen
Amazing product and service.
Sherwin Gandhi
Fondo is a team of rockstars. They make everything look easy - from onboarding to the actual bookkeeping. Very resourceful and helpful including sorting admin things out like entity registration etc. Highly recommended!!
Scott Sonneborn
Fondo is incredible. On-boarding experience was seamless - less than 15mins. Pumped to have everything off our plate. Very affordable for the level of service (dedicated slack channel) and amount of work they do.
Samuel Schneider
Fondo really helped get taxes done, an excellent asset for founders who are spread thin!
Richie Cartwright
Makes life easy, including for more complex structures like telemedicine (where we need different entities).
Rishab Hedge
Super helpful and hands on help!
Rajiv Bhat
Absolutely love the service!! David and the team rock!!
Pranav Sekhar
Great experience -- the team is super helpful!
Raffaele Colella
They made my life so easy - def reccomended
Pranav Manpuria
Super easy to use. Love Fondo!
Prasad Kawthekar
Fondo is incredible, they make a founder's job really easy until you get a dedicated Ops team member.
Parthi Loganathan
Fondo made taking care of my taxes painless... or at least as painless as taxes can get
Pradhith Konduri
Incredible service by the Fondo team! They have built out a process that makes it relatively hands-off for you to file taxes and stay in compliance.
Nunzio Martinello
Great team, service and support.
Nick Ornitz
Fantastic team that is extremely responsive! The Fondo team provides personalized attention and makes the onboarding experience seamless. Highly recommend.
Nikhil Abraham
Fondo has been great and helped us complete our 409a quickly!
Pablo Ferrari
Helped us keeping quickbooks organized, filed taxes, and got us a lot of R&D credits: all with ~1 hour of work from my side (setting up users in quickbooks and rippling for them and sending some previous year docs).
One Chowdhury
Fondo has been managing our accounting and Tax! They are so so so good with the process that I feel like I have a full finance team on autopilot!!! Team is also extremely responsive!! ❤️
Micah Wylde
As a technical startup CEO I have 30 different jobs and am completely overwhelmed all of the time. Using Fondo means that I don't have to think about bookkeeping or taxes which means I only have 29 other jobs to worry about. The team has been very helpful getting us set up with QuickBooks and handling all of our tax reporting. Highly recommended to other stressed founders!
Nicholas Kao
Team is fantastic and responsive, feel safe knowing they have my accounting and taxes handled.
Moréniké Oláòsebikan
Very responsive and user friendly. Thank you for making my start-up life easier.
Liana Herrera
Best tax season I’ve ever had since I became an accountant!! thanks to my friends from Fondo 😁🔥
Luifer De Pombo
Fondo is amazing. They are responsive and have our best interest in mind. They will walk us through anything we need. Highly recommend.
Man Hei Lou
Great experience! Loving Fondo, David and the team.
Kenna Nzewi
Fondo is very good at efficiently asking for what they need and then getting out of your way so you can build. Very thoughtful and founder-oriented service, highly recommend
Matthew Busel
The team at Fondo is great! They're super helpful, responsive, and take care of a ton of tax/accounting work. Highly recommend.
Joel Phillips
It has been refreshing to work with the team, after struggling with other platforms and accountants in the past. Thanks Fondo!
Jeff Tang
Fondo always have fast and helpful customer support and service.
James Hawkins
Huge fan of Fondo. They just get startups. They've been handling our US business and know how to work with our UK child company accountant too.
Jamie Gull
Fondo is incredibly helpful to take a lot of work off a founders plate and is easy to work with.
Jenna Hua
Super efficient! Really enjoyed working with the Fondo team! Highly recommend!
Harry Qi
They are extremely fast and it's great!
Jayme Hoffman
Fondo feels like part of our team. I love how they make sure we never miss a thing and stay on us to move forward. I can't recommend them enough.
Emily Yuhas
Really great team - easy onboarding and lots of value and saved time for us.
Gauri Manglik
Super helpful for DE Franchise Tax- highly recommend!
Dar Mehta
Had an amazing experience - worked with Ali, Diane, David, and Kayvon. Super responsive and knowledgeable. Strongly recommend!
Danny Sheridan
I was doing accounting and taxes myself before Fondo. I decided to check out Fondo and others and see which one was right for me. Others quoted me multiples of what Fondo priced me at. Decided to give them a go and am glad I did. Nice to have communicative professionals handling table stakes tasks like my income statement, balance sheet, and tax reporting at the state/national level.
Gregory Gevorkyan
Fondo are rockstars! The only company that knows how to deal with international startups.
Dillon Zhang Forrest
Love using Fondo! One of the best services we use - they are super responsive and helpful.
Daniel Jones
Amazing product and service. Would definitely recommend. Saves me so many accounting headaches, so I can focus totally on just building product. Dave and the Fondo team rock!!!!
Chris Bakke
Customer and #1 fan. This was actually a previous issue from before we partnered with them.
Dan Siroker
Fondo is fantastic!
Daniel Campion
No question, make your life easier with Fondo! Effortless and efficient, helpful to keep you on top of IRS filings. Highly recommended
Charles Chretien
Awesome team & great product!
Ayush Sharma
Highly recommend Fondo for all business taxes. We used them last year and are using them for 2024 as well. David and team is a breath of fresh air when it comes to simplifying the maze of corporate taxes for startup founders.
Dan Petkevich
Love the Fondo team. Completely handles all my accounting/tax needs.
Giorgi Tsurtsumia
Fondo was a life safer for us as a foreign company who had no idea how to manage accounting for DE entity.
Anthony Scarpone-Lambert
Highly recommend! Fondo has saved us a lot of time. They are extremely founder friendly and very responsive.
Anna Berger
We've been using Fondo since the very beginning of Trayd. The team is super knowledgeable and always willing to help us navigate any/all tax-related questions. Would recommend to anyone seeking this support.
Ankit Gorghandas
Fondo is the best!
Arnav Bathla ·
I absolutely love the team and the product! Super responsive and truly an A+ experience. Highly recommend using Fondo for your bookkeeping and taxes.
Anji Ismail
Competent and reactive team! And great deal.
Anjie Liu
Our team at Fondo goes above and beyond for us. Truly a reliable partner for Kiwi.
Anders Forslund
Great experience.
Allison Walsh
Loved working with Fondo! Great group.
Ahana Banerjee ·
Taxes and accounting can be such a black-box, but Fondo were incredibly patient with all my questions and explained everything extremely thoroughly and simply. The team is super responsive too; we have numerous people we can contact at any time through our shared Slack channel. We love being Fondo customers!
Alex Stansell
Super easy to use - great product!
Alex Sands
Loving Fondo so far! 10x better than my previous accountant experience.
Adora Cheung
Friendly, fast and efficient!
Aditya Jayaprakash
Great product and team. Super easy to setup and very responsive. Would highly recommend using them.
Kaben Clauson
Just use Fondo. It works great and helps you not think about your taxes.
Tom Firth
The Fondo team is great. Wish I had done it a year ago.
Pauline Roteta
I wish I'd moved to fondo earlier. Best tax filing experience ever, and we used to work with a national (much more expensive) CPA firm before... kudos to Fondo for making this boring stuff so easy
Elias Almqvist
Fondo is just fucking awesome
Kanishk Parashar
Awesome stuff!
Bardia Safari
Have had a great experience so far
Julius Adebayo
We've been using Fondo for a year now, and enjoyed working with them.
Bryan Onel
Fondo is amazing!
Roman Sevast
Fondo is Great!
Piero del Risco
Great team
Sandra Lifshits
Love working with Fondo! Made everything super easy.
Christian Van Der Henst
Easy onboarding
Amy Yan
Love the team and product!!
Diogo Valdivieso
I would flag that Fondo charges for Quarterly Bookeeping in their deal. This is useless for most startups. Annual bookkeeping is all you need.
Skyler Chan
David is the goat
Daivik Goel
Team has been super responsive, David is awesome
Kevan Dodhia
Fondo have been great so far!
Jason Cornelius
Fondo has made bookkeeping and accounting very straightforward. This is one of the better YC deals we've had the opportunity to try out. :)
Kai Cui
Fondo has been super easy to use and David is amazing
Sky Yang
David is the best, I love fondo, it was so easy to setup and get all my anlytics. We were thinking of hiring financial analyst and accountants, but fondo took care of everything!
Sid Rajaram
We love Fondo! David is awesome!
Lisa Kleinsorge
Amazing team! Gets the job done
Ahmad Sadeddin
Awesome product and company! Highly recommend them.
Basile Senesi
Really strong, well tailored on QBO startup accounting. Responsive, high touch team!
Illiana Reed
Fondo makes my life easy. I set it up one time, and they email me when they need something from me. That's it. Taxes done and dusted.
Zyad Elgohary
To be honest, I'm not sure what startups did before Fondo. Having a CPA in our Slack is essential.
Nauren Batjargal
Shoutout to Fondo for their incredible bookkeeping, tax, and tax credit services for startups. Fondo has been super helpful, especially during difficult situations. Their team’s eagerness to assist is remarkable, even accommodating us when we struggled with payments. Fondo’s culture shines through every interaction. Their service is outstanding, and every startup should consider using their products. We love Fondo and believe in their success.
Cristina Bunea
Just started using this (filed DE franchise tax with them), but the experience so far has been great. Very easy to use and intuitive, especially for the price.
Yana Welinder
Only regret: why didn't I get Fondo sooner :)
Yash Kothari
Fondo has been great! Super easy to work with.
Tom Bachant
The Fondo team were great & support communicative through the process!
Stephen Grabowski
Great experience so far. We have a complex setup and they have way outperformed the previous two solutions we had tried out. Strongly recommend.
Vishnu Hari
Fondo is the best and has been a huge upgrade over our previous bookkeepers :)
Theo Browne
Wanted to shout out a company having a strong impact on my stress as a founder and CEO - Fondo y'all are killing it 🙏
Sebastian Janisch
Fantastic team, they got us set up super quickly. Very happy with Fondo.
Sam Parr
Big fan of Fondo...was one of their first customers!!
Robert Thelen
Amazing product and service.
Sherwin Gandhi
Fondo is a team of rockstars. They make everything look easy - from onboarding to the actual bookkeeping. Very resourceful and helpful including sorting admin things out like entity registration etc. Highly recommended!!
Scott Sonneborn
Fondo is incredible. On-boarding experience was seamless - less than 15mins. Pumped to have everything off our plate. Very affordable for the level of service (dedicated slack channel) and amount of work they do.
Samuel Schneider
Fondo really helped get taxes done, an excellent asset for founders who are spread thin!
Richie Cartwright
Makes life easy, including for more complex structures like telemedicine (where we need different entities).
Rishab Hedge
Super helpful and hands on help!
Rajiv Bhat
Absolutely love the service!! David and the team rock!!
Pranav Sekhar
Great experience -- the team is super helpful!
Raffaele Colella
They made my life so easy - def reccomended
Pranav Manpuria
Super easy to use. Love Fondo!
Prasad Kawthekar
Fondo is incredible, they make a founder's job really easy until you get a dedicated Ops team member.
Parthi Loganathan
Fondo made taking care of my taxes painless... or at least as painless as taxes can get
Pradhith Konduri
Incredible service by the Fondo team! They have built out a process that makes it relatively hands-off for you to file taxes and stay in compliance.
Nunzio Martinello
Great team, service and support.
Nick Ornitz
Fantastic team that is extremely responsive! The Fondo team provides personalized attention and makes the onboarding experience seamless. Highly recommend.
Nikhil Abraham
Fondo has been great and helped us complete our 409a quickly!
Pablo Ferrari
Helped us keeping quickbooks organized, filed taxes, and got us a lot of R&D credits: all with ~1 hour of work from my side (setting up users in quickbooks and rippling for them and sending some previous year docs).
One Chowdhury
Fondo has been managing our accounting and Tax! They are so so so good with the process that I feel like I have a full finance team on autopilot!!! Team is also extremely responsive!! ❤️
Micah Wylde
As a technical startup CEO I have 30 different jobs and am completely overwhelmed all of the time. Using Fondo means that I don't have to think about bookkeeping or taxes which means I only have 29 other jobs to worry about. The team has been very helpful getting us set up with QuickBooks and handling all of our tax reporting. Highly recommended to other stressed founders!
Nicholas Kao
Team is fantastic and responsive, feel safe knowing they have my accounting and taxes handled.
Moréniké Oláòsebikan
Very responsive and user friendly. Thank you for making my start-up life easier.
Liana Herrera
Best tax season I’ve ever had since I became an accountant!! thanks to my friends from Fondo 😁🔥
Luifer De Pombo
Fondo is amazing. They are responsive and have our best interest in mind. They will walk us through anything we need. Highly recommend.
Man Hei Lou
Great experience! Loving Fondo, David and the team.
Kenna Nzewi
Fondo is very good at efficiently asking for what they need and then getting out of your way so you can build. Very thoughtful and founder-oriented service, highly recommend
Matthew Busel
The team at Fondo is great! They're super helpful, responsive, and take care of a ton of tax/accounting work. Highly recommend.
Joel Phillips
It has been refreshing to work with the team, after struggling with other platforms and accountants in the past. Thanks Fondo!
Jeff Tang
Fondo always have fast and helpful customer support and service.
James Hawkins
Huge fan of Fondo. They just get startups. They've been handling our US business and know how to work with our UK child company accountant too.
Jamie Gull
Fondo is incredibly helpful to take a lot of work off a founders plate and is easy to work with.
Jenna Hua
Super efficient! Really enjoyed working with the Fondo team! Highly recommend!
Harry Qi
They are extremely fast and it's great!
Jayme Hoffman
Fondo feels like part of our team. I love how they make sure we never miss a thing and stay on us to move forward. I can't recommend them enough.
Emily Yuhas
Really great team - easy onboarding and lots of value and saved time for us.
Gauri Manglik
Super helpful for DE Franchise Tax- highly recommend!
Dar Mehta
Had an amazing experience - worked with Ali, Diane, David, and Kayvon. Super responsive and knowledgeable. Strongly recommend!
Danny Sheridan
I was doing accounting and taxes myself before Fondo. I decided to check out Fondo and others and see which one was right for me. Others quoted me multiples of what Fondo priced me at. Decided to give them a go and am glad I did. Nice to have communicative professionals handling table stakes tasks like my income statement, balance sheet, and tax reporting at the state/national level.
Gregory Gevorkyan
Fondo are rockstars! The only company that knows how to deal with international startups.
Dillon Zhang Forrest
Love using Fondo! One of the best services we use - they are super responsive and helpful.
Daniel Jones
Amazing product and service. Would definitely recommend. Saves me so many accounting headaches, so I can focus totally on just building product. Dave and the Fondo team rock!!!!
Chris Bakke
Customer and #1 fan. This was actually a previous issue from before we partnered with them.
Dan Siroker
Fondo is fantastic!
Daniel Campion
No question, make your life easier with Fondo! Effortless and efficient, helpful to keep you on top of IRS filings. Highly recommended
Charles Chretien
Awesome team & great product!
Ayush Sharma
Highly recommend Fondo for all business taxes. We used them last year and are using them for 2024 as well. David and team is a breath of fresh air when it comes to simplifying the maze of corporate taxes for startup founders.
Dan Petkevich
Love the Fondo team. Completely handles all my accounting/tax needs.
Giorgi Tsurtsumia
Fondo was a life safer for us as a foreign company who had no idea how to manage accounting for DE entity.
Anthony Scarpone-Lambert
Highly recommend! Fondo has saved us a lot of time. They are extremely founder friendly and very responsive.
Anna Berger
We've been using Fondo since the very beginning of Trayd. The team is super knowledgeable and always willing to help us navigate any/all tax-related questions. Would recommend to anyone seeking this support.
Ankit Gorghandas
Fondo is the best!
Arnav Bathla ·
I absolutely love the team and the product! Super responsive and truly an A+ experience. Highly recommend using Fondo for your bookkeeping and taxes.
Anji Ismail
Competent and reactive team! And great deal.
Anjie Liu
Our team at Fondo goes above and beyond for us. Truly a reliable partner for Kiwi.
Anders Forslund
Great experience.
Allison Walsh
Loved working with Fondo! Great group.
Ahana Banerjee ·
Taxes and accounting can be such a black-box, but Fondo were incredibly patient with all my questions and explained everything extremely thoroughly and simply. The team is super responsive too; we have numerous people we can contact at any time through our shared Slack channel. We love being Fondo customers!
Alex Stansell
Super easy to use - great product!
Alex Sands
Loving Fondo so far! 10x better than my previous accountant experience.
Adora Cheung
Friendly, fast and efficient!
Aditya Jayaprakash
Great product and team. Super easy to setup and very responsive. Would highly recommend using them.
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